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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ryan M Irwin |
| ISBN: | 9780199855612 0199855617 |
| OCLC Number: | 774867694 |
| Description: | xi, 244 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Opening the curtain -- Part one. Winds of change -- Architects and earthquakes -- Defining the debate -- Africa for the Africans -- Part two. Halls of justice -- The status quo -- Looking outward -- Conclusion: toward a new order. |
| Series Title: | Oxford studies in international history. |
| Responsibility: | Ryan M. Irwin. |
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<br>"Gordian Knot is an outstanding contribution to international history. It helps us understand why the United States was seen as the defender of apartheid South Africa and shows the disastrous consequences of that position for U.S. African policy." --Odd Arne Westad, author of Restless Empire: Chinaand the World since 1750<p><br>"From 1960, as more and more African countries gained their independence, the racial policies of South Africa became a matter of global concern. Ryan Irwin has spotted a gap in the literature and filled it admirably, showing the complexities and ambiguities in the ways in which the international community responded to the apartheid regime." --Christopher Saunders, University of Cape Town<p><br>"In this ambitious book, Ryan Irwin recounts the intersecting histories of decolonization and the international struggle against apartheid in South Africa, from its mid-century beginnings to its triumph in the last decade of the 20th century. The very length of the struggle is an indication of its complexity and the genius of Gordian Knot is that it is able to capture it all." --Marilyn Young, New York University<p><br>"Situating the debate over apartheid in its global context, Ryan Irwin offers us a new perspective on postwar international history, and particularly on the intersections of the cold war and decolonization. Through this prism, this book shows how the rise of new nations in Africa influenced the dynamics of the cold war, the nature of the United Nations, and the direction of U.S. policy, and how it reshaped international society in ways that continue to matter today." --Erez Manela, author of The Wilsonian Moment<p><br>"Irwin's informative and eloquent study is unique in its focus on U.S. foreign policy toward Africa during an era defined by nonalignment, decolonization, the cold war, and the U.S. civil rights movement. Just as Jim Crow segregation was the 'Achilles heel' of the United States at the height of the cold war, the immoral Read more...
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- South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1961-1978.
- Apartheid -- Political aspects -- South Africa.
- Self-determination, National -- South Africa.
- Decolonization -- South Africa.
- South Africa -- Foreign relations.
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